Private City (23 images)

More and more of what appears to be public space in our towns and cities is now owned and managed by private companies. In London, the rules to which we must conform in many of our once public squares, parks, shopping centres and business districts are now set by UK property developers, foreign sovereign wealth funds and other offshore entities. Even City Hall, the seat of the city's elected government, is owned by the Kuwaiti government.

More and more of what appears to be public space in our towns and cities is now owned and managed by private companies. In London, the rules to which we must conform in many of our once public squares, parks, shopping centres and business districts are now set by UK property developers, foreign sovereign wealth funds and other offshore entities. Even City Hall, the seat of the city's elected government, is owned by the Kuwaiti government.

These pictures are part of an ongoing documentation of the privatisation of the public realm. More on this here: http://bit.ly/2fYJIcu« less